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Everything below is cross-posted from !superbowl@lemmy.world - https://lemmy.world/post/11561723:

See the original post for more pics of the storm damage and rescue of the lost owl.

Good news, courtesy of Oregon Public Broadcasting!

Thanks to work from staff and volunteers, the center will reopen to the public Feb. 9.

Executive Director Julie Collins said community members and volunteer arborists have worked tirelessly to remove hanging limbs and picking up truckloads of storm debris at the wildlife refuge.

Donations received over the last several weeks have also covered the cost of storm damage and lost revenue from the closure.

Collins said thousands of community members have contacted the center over the last few weeks to offer their help.

“I think I’m going to be saying thank you a lot,” Collins said.”I hope that the community continues to stand behind us over the years so we can continue to do this work for the generations to come.”

She said two aviaries were seriously damaged by falling trees during the storm, but neither bird, Atticus the bald eagle nor Lorax the great horned owl, were harmed.

Both birds have been relocated to temporary enclosures in areas of the center that are open to the public while volunteers rebuild their normal homes.

It's good to see some good owl news, and amazing to see Oregonians (and some others, I'm sure) come together to help the animals and the center out.

If you're able, go take a visit and give it a look and your support!

cross-posted from !SuperbOwl@lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/post/10995574

Cascades Raptor Center in Oregon sustained heavy damage in a snowstorm this month. Lorax the Great Horned Owl was missing after its enclosure was crushed by a falling tree.

From KOIN News

When keepers at Eugene’s Cascades Raptor Center arrived onsite Tuesday morning after the winter storm swept through the area, they became immediately concerned when a Great Horned Owl named Lorax was missing from her damaged enclosure.

Keepers, including Lorax’s trainer Carrie Lorenz, recounted how they all immediately went into “action mode,” removing tree debris and making sure the bird wasn’t trapped under the rubble.

“As we were heading back with our axes to clear the tree, we were calling out for her just in case. All of a sudden we heard her calling back to us,” said Lorenz. “We ran up the hill towards her call, and there she was: perched in a tree near another aviary. It was the biggest relief imaginable…I put out my glove and she flew right down to it, which was the best feeling in the world.”

Lorenz continued, “As trainers, we spend a lot of time developing a strong relationship between us and the birds we work with. I’m so glad our relationship with Lorax was strong enough that she trusted me, and flew right down to the glove even after that traumatic experience.”

Additionally from NBC16

The destruction of Lorax’s enclosure is just one of the many damaged areas at Cascades Raptor Center due to the severe weather that took place January 13-16, the Center stated.

Fallen trees and electrical damage have made the center inaccessible and dangerous, forcing a closure that may last weeks as the Center struggles to repair the walkways, parking lot, and damaged aviaries.

Reparations to the damaged infrastructure and removal of all fallen trees are estimated to cost the Center over $30,000, and will take hundreds of hours of labor from Cascades staff and volunteers.

“Closing our doors is always a hardship for the Center,” said Executive Director Julie Collins. ”But in this instance, it is a must. We have a lot of hard work to do to make the Nature Center safe for our guests. One of our biggest threats right now are the large number of widowmaker branches hanging over newly constructed aviaries; getting those branches removed safely and quickly is necessary to protect both the staff and the site.”

The animal hospital is open during repairs, and emergency fundraising is going on as well. Damage was also severe in the Bald Eagle enclosure as well, but it sounds like it was found safe as well.

Here are pictures of the damage from the NBC article.

If you're a long time reader of the EW you may have noticed the paper has been cost cutting lately. I assumed it was effects from the pandemic, but they're actually been the victim of embezzlement. Here are some bits from the article.

There will be no print paper edition of EW, for the first time in more than 20 years. And we are fighting like hell to print another one.

Shortly before Christmas, we discovered that EW had been the victim of embezzlement at the hands of someone we once trusted.

We’ve discovered that many companies we do business with ... haven’t been paid in months. EW employees who thought they were paying into retirement accounts have learned the money never arrived at its destination. We had to lay off the entire 10-person staff EW three days before Christmas. One of our biggest creditors, our printer, says it will print EW again only if we pay upfront.

PSU was involved too, but we know where the real work was done ;)

Hopefully this doesn't violate the no ads rule, as it is my model. But I'm pretty proud of it and wanted to share.

I designed a backyard feeder to look like the restaurant from Bob's Burgers complete with a Burger of the Day special. It's fully 3d printed (other than glue) and designed to be tough (it wasn't until I uploaded the gcode that I realized it's 1.2 kg worth of filament). So far the squirrels and jays are loving it.

https://www.printables.com/model/493447-bobs-birders

After watching a resident squirrel repeatedly try (and fail) to get at one of our bird feeders, I somehow got the image in my head of the squirrel sitting on Teddy's stool at Bob's Burgers chowing down. So I opened up CAD and decided to make my daydream a reality. That was almost a year ago, but I've finally gotten it published and wanted to share.

https://www.printables.com/model/493447-bobs-birders

This is 3D printable and open licensed (CC BY-SA).

The Chrome team says they're not going to pursue Web Integrity but...

it is piloting a new Android WebView Media Integrity API that’s “narrowly scoped, and only targets WebViews embedded in apps.”

They say its because the team "heard your feedback." I'm sure that's true, and I can wildly speculate that all the current anti-trust attention was a factor too.

Alternate title: Microsoft closes barn door after last horse seen leaving and starting a bot farm.

Microsoft is now announcing a huge cybersecurity effort, dubbed the Secure Future Initiative (SFI). This new approach is designed to change the way Microsoft designs, builds, tests, and operates its software and services today. It’s the biggest change to security efforts inside Microsoft since the company announced its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) in 2004 after Windows XP fell victim to a huge Blaster worm attack that knocked PCs offline in 2003.

Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet.

This brings me, I think, to the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant.

This extreme power over the adtech and online advertising ecosystem is one of the subjects of an FTC antitrust suit against Google.

My wife and I heard the boom a little before 9 this morning in the River Rd area. The cats freaked out and we searched the house thinking something heavy had fallen somewhere. Eventually we shrugged and moved on.

But I just opened my RSS reader and saw there are 2 threads on the subject back on the reddit. Sounds like it was heard all over the city and shook some windows in areas. Here are the links: first thread, second.

I made this many years ago and just stumbled on it. Who remembers the early days of EBS volumes on AWS and needing to raid 8 of them together to get high throughput?